3SCALE Launches APItools, a No-Cost Service to Help App Developers Tame APIs

I’ve been using APItools internally to track API traffic, and at hackathons for projects and it’s great to have this visibility and control.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2014

Today’s web and mobile applications depend on a wide range of backend APIs to make them function, but staying in control of these external systems is a huge pain point. To help application developers with this challenge, 3SCALE, the leading API management platform, today announced the private beta launch of APItools. The product allows developers to quickly and easily track and monitor all of an application’s API traffic. It also includes the capability to transform and modify inbound and outbound traffic, as well as analyze flows to detect peaks and problems. APItools is a free service launching in private beta today with signup at http://www.apitools.com/.

By helping application developers interact with APIs, 3SCALE aims to continue removing barriers to API adoption, and help unleash their value. APItools will save developers using APIs valuable time in learning how an API works, allowing them to easily test and debug their app, and provide simpler way to transform traffic, and use middleware keys and headers. Operations teams will benefit from APItools ability to easily monitor their API endpoint/methods, control all traffic for different apps in one place, and set up tests/alerts for errors.

“As the API industry continues to evolve, developers increasingly depend on APIs for applications to function but managing the dependencies this creates can be extremely time consuming. Over time we’ve built internal tools to help do this and APItools makes these accessible to others for use,” said Steve Willmott, CEO of 3SCALE. “The launch of APITools is our latest effort to bring APIs to the mainstream and help both API providers and developers realize their value without the friction that exists today.”

“I’ve been using APItools internally to track API traffic and at hackathons for projects and it’s great to have this visibility and control,” said Nicolas Grenie, one of 3SCALE’s developer evangelists. “Although there are a lot of tools out there to manage APIs as a provider, if you’re a developer using those APIs there is little available, so it’s great that we can release this for wider use.”

About 3SCALE
3SCALE provides a comprehensive API infrastructure that helps both API providers to easily package, distribute, manage and monetize APIs, and users of APIs to interact with them in a simple way. 3SCALE’s API Provider SaaS infrastructure is flexible, secure and web scalable, and enables the distribution of a company's data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/web applications, as well as the ability to easily productize APIs. Since 2009, more than 100,000 developers are consuming more than 300 APIs exposed using 3SCALE. Customers span the Fortune 500, government, academia, and startups including Johnson Controls, SITA, Transport For London (TFL), UC Berkeley, Skype, Wine.com among others. For more information, visit http://www.3scale.net.